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school. Read all the mwi note*. Learn —the people in your county. Their... children may be the ones in classee with your children in school. They live in the county, too, and though their voting precinct may be 15 minute* away from you, your interests are the same. They raise apple* and cattle just as you do, and they are your neighbors. The News shall stick to the policy of putting all the news notes together.
« * * That pad of scratch paper by the telephone was placed there to take down important messages. (If you do not have a pad, stop by the News office and get one.) No one is fooled by all the explanations: it’s a doodle-pad, and rare is the specimen who will not doodle while he talks, especially if the paper and pencil is at hand.
Some wise (or otherwise) man has made extensive studies of man’s personality as revealed in his “doodling.”
The complexities . of all these studies of why we tick as we do is sufficient to wory us, if we take the time. Man has no privacy. Some fellow with a string of degrees beyond his name will spend his time placing sinister motives even in the careless pencil-scribblings of the rest of us unsuspecti- ing mortals.
Someone should start a society for the prevention of all this prying into the privacy of the rest of us. There are societies for everything else.
When people call themselves artists and scribble and smear good paint all over a piece of canvas, the lesults are hung in an art gallery and the public is invited to pay money to view same.
Most of the “works of art” look like the cow got her tail in a bucket of paint and swished it over the canvas. Yet the critics rave and the public will go see. Some people oh! and ah! and pretend they think the messes are wonderful; some of us just sit and stare and try to find out what it is we can’t understand about “modern art” and some of us— uncouth and ignorant proletariate —laugh and pronounce the smears and swirls as being just what they appear.
They say some people “doodle” with pictures of birds and animals, while others use lines and circles. All this means something, report the learned men. Sure, it means something. It means you’re talking on the phone and a pencil and scratch-pad are handy, and you start scribbling. Period.
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